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1. Each of you ______ responsible for the accident.
A. am B. be Cc. is D. are
2. Each man and woman ______ the same rights.
A. has B. have C. had D. is having
3. Every means ______ tried but without much result.
A. has been B. have been C. are D. is
4. There ______ in this room.
A. are too much furniture B. is too many furnitures
C. are too much furnitures D. is too much furniture
5. The manager or his assistant ______ planning to go.
A. were B. are C. was D. be
6. Not only I but also David and Iris ______ fond of playing basketball.
A. am B. is C. are D. was
7. Neither Tom nor his parents ______ at home.
A. is B. are C. has D. was
8. Either the dean or the principal ______ the meeting.
A. attends B. attend C. are attending D. have attended
9. ______ was wrong.
A. Not the teacher but the students B. Both the students and the teacher
C. Neither the teacher not the students D. Not the students but the teacher
10. “______ twenty dollars a big sum to her?”
“I suppose so.”
A. Will be B. Is C. Are D. Were
11. Three hours ______ enough for us to finish the task.
A. are B. has C. is D. were
12. Most of his savings ______ in the Xin Hua Bank.
A. has been kept B. is being kept C. have kept D. have been kept
13. All that can be done ______.
A. has done B. has been done C. have done D. have been done
14. One or perhaps more pages _______.
A. is missing B. has been missed C. are missing D. was missing
15. More than one worker ______ dismissed.
A. have been B. are C. has been D. has
16. Many a student ______ the importance of learning a foreign language.
A have realized B. has realize C. have been realized D. has been realized
17. The gas works ______ near the city.
A. is B. are C. were D. be
18. The surroundings of his house ______ clean now.
A. is B are C. was D. were
19. The committee ______ over the problem among themselves for two hours.
A. has argued B. has been arguing C. have argued D. have been arguing
20. The public ______ generous in their contributions to the earthquake victims.
A. is B. was C. are D. has been
基本用法及常见考点
在英语中，句中谓语动词必须在人称和数上与主语保持一致，主要遵循以下三个原则：
㈠语法一致原则 主语为单数形式，谓语动词用单数；主语为复数形式，谓语动词也用复数形式。
Jane and Mary look healthy and strong.
He likes reading stories.
Some of the furniture has been moved to another room.
㈡意义一致原则
Her family are all early risers.
The old are taken good care of in our motherland.
㈢就近一致原则
Not only the students but also the teacher doesn’t know about it.
There is a book and two pens on the desk.
下面就从名词做主语、代词做主语、数词量词做主语等四个方面进行详细分析。
I.名词作主语:
1． 集体名词做主语
1)有些集体名词（如：family, class, crowd, crew, enemy, team, public, government, club, army, group等）作主语，如果视为一个整体，谓语动词用单数;若就其中一个个成员而言，谓语动词用复数。
My family is a big one..（整体） The whole family are watching TV.（具体成员）
The village is not far from here.（整体）. The whole village are out greeting him. （具体成员）
2)有些集体名词（如：people,police,cattle，folk, mankind）只当复数看待,谓语动词用复数。
The police are searching for him. Cattle are one cause of the problem.
3)有些无生命的集体名词（如：jewellery, poetry, equipment, clothing等）作主语时，谓语动词用单数。
Much of her jewellry was missing. The equipment of the lab is carried by two trucks.
注意：population用法 The population in our country is very large and eighty percent of the population are farmers.
2.表示时间、金额、度量、距离等复数名词作主语时，作整体看待，谓语动词用单数。
Three years has passed. Ten thousand dollars is not enough.
3.国名、书报名、剧名、山水名、城市名、学科等专有名词作主语时，谓语动词用单数。山脉（the Himalayas）、群岛(the Philippines)、瀑布(the Nigara Falls)等名词作主语时，谓语动词用复数。
The United Nations was founded in 1945. Maths seems to be difficult for me.
TheSelected Poems of LiBai was published long ago.
The
4.一些由两个部份构成的名词表示衣物或工具作主语时，谓语常用复数形式，如：clothes,trousers,shoes,shorts,glasses,goods,chopstics(筷子) 等，但由a pair of, a kind of, a series of等修饰时，谓语动词一般用单数。
Her trousers are beautiful indeed. A pair of shoes was on the desk.
5.单复数同形的名词（如： means,works,Chinese,Japanese，sheep, deer, fish等），作单数时，谓语用单数;反之谓语用复数。
The glass works was rebuilt in July,1979.
The (These) glass works are near the railway station.
它们前面有a, such a,this,that，every等 修饰时，谓语用单数；有all,such,these,those修饰时，谓语用复数。Means,no means,the means前无修饰词时，谓语单复数均可。
Every means has been tried.（每一种办法） All means have been tried.（所有办法）
There is(are) no means of getting there.
6.不定代词each,every, no修饰的名词，即使以and或逗号连接成多个并列主语，谓语的动词仍然用单数形式。
Each boy and each girl wants to serve the people in the future.
7.主语由more than one…或many a…构成，意义复数，谓语动词却用单数。
More than one student has seen the film “Titanic”.
Many a ship has been damaged in the storm.
但“ more+名词复数+than one”作主语，谓语动词一般用复数形式。
More young teacthers than one are against this plan。
8.the number of, a/the/this pair(kind, type) of, either/neither of +名词复数作主语，谓语动词用单数
Is either of your parents an engineer? There is a pair of shoes left on the shelf.
This kind of book=a book of this kind ( 这种书 )，其谓语用单数；this kind of men=men of this kind,但前者谓语用单数，后者谓语用复数。
This kind of men is dangerous. Men of this kind are dangerous.
9.主语+as well as ( as much as, no less than, with, along with, together with, rather than, like, but, except, besides, including ) 时，其谓语单复数与主语保持一致。
The teacher with a number of students is in the classroom.
Nothing but stamps and envelopes is for sale.
10.由and, both …and 连接并列主语时，谓语动词常用复数。
Plastics and rubber never rot.
Both my father and my sister are writers.
但并列主语表示同一人、同一事物、同一概念，谓语动词用单数。
The poet and writer is gone.
Going to bed early and getting up early is a good habbit.
A knife and fork is on the table.
Bread and butter is served for the breakfast.
No clothes and no food is difficult to live.
11.名词所有格之后名词被省略的情况下，动词一般用单数。
My sister”s is not far from here.
12．由or, either…or, neither…nor, not only…but also, not…but 等连接的并列主语，谓语动词遵循就近原则。
Not his brothers but he wants to pay you a visit.
Neither we nor she knows the stranger.
Tom or his brothers are waiting in the room.
there be /here be结构类似
There is an old writing desk, a wooden bed and two chairs in his bedroom.
Here are some envelopes and paper for you.
13.在主谓倒装的句子中，谓语动词的数应与其后的主语一致。
Between the two windows hangs a picture.
There lies a beautiful small town at the foot of the hill.
II.代词作主语
1. 名词型物主代词后的动词，根据所替代的内容决定谓语单复数形式。
Ours (Our Party ) is a great party.
Your shoes are black and mine are brown.
2. Such +be +主语
Such is our plan. Such are his words.
3. 定语从句中关系代词后的谓语形式要同被修饰的代词保持一致。。
Those who want to go please sign your names here.
Bob is one of my friends who are helping me with English.
He is the only one of the officers who was invited to the ball here.
I, who am wrong, should apologize to him.
4 .疑问代词who, what, which 作主语时，视情况而定。
Who lives next door? It is Xiao Lin.
Who live next door? Zhang and Liu.
Which is(are) your book(s) ?
5.every-, some-, any-, no-, 等构成的不定代词作主语，谓语动词用单数。
Everybody obeys the rules.
I’ll tell yopu something that sounds interesting.
any, either, neither, none, all, some, more 等作主语时，谓语动词有两种情况：
★单独作主语 All has been changed. All are present
either, neither 单独作主语，谓语用单数。
★ 后接of 短语，of后宾语为不可数名词，动词当然用单数形式，of 后宾语为复数名词或代词，动词单复数均可。
Do(es) any of you know his address? None of them has(have) seen the film.
All of the water is gone.
each单独作主语，动词用单数。 Each of the students has a dictionary.
cf. The boy and the girl each have their own toys.
III.数词、量词等作主语
1. half, the majority, the rest, some, most, (a) part, a lot, lots, plenty，a large quantity ,masses以及分数、百分数+of+ 名词/代词作主语,视情况而定。
Half of the work is left unfinished.
Half of the apples are given to the children.
More than 70 percent of the surface of our earth is covered by water.
但qunatities of…作主语，谓语动词一般用复数。
Quantities of food (nuts) were on the table..
2. a (great) number of, many, a few +可数名词复数，谓语动词用复数；
a little, much, a great deal of , +不可数名词，谓语动词用单数。
A number of students have gone to the countryside.
A great deal of waste is poured straight into the river.
3. one and a half +复数名词，谓语动词用单数。
One and a half bananas is left on the table.
IV.其它作主语
1． the+ 形容词/过去分词表示一类人，喂语用复数，如：the blind, the poor, the rich, the breave, the dead, the wounded, the employed, the Chinese…
The blind in
表示抽象概念用单数。
The beautiful is not always the beautiful.
3. 从句作主语，谓语动词用单数。
Whether we shall go there hasn’t been decided.
What we need is more time. 但 What we need are doctors.
What he said and what he did have greatly encouraged his brother.
4. 不定式、动名词作主语
Nodding the head means agreement, while shaking it means disagreement.
To catch what he had said was difficult. 但To say it and to do it are different thi
高考题链接及能力拓展练习题
1.---- Is there anybody in the classroom?
-----No, the teacher as well as the students to the playground.
A. go B. went C.has D.gone
2.Mr.Clinton , together with his wife and daughter, going to Japan next week.
A. are B. is C.will be D.would be
3.---- Have you heard about the new school?
----- No, when and where to build the new one yet.
A. is not decided B. aren’t decided C. hasn’t decided D.haven’t been decided
4.Not the teacher but the students excited.
A.is B.has C.are D.have
5.E-mail, as well as telephones, an important part in daily communication.
A. is playing B.have played C.are playing D.play
6.Books of this kind well.
A. sell B.sells C.are sold D.is sold
7.The number of the teachers in this area .
A.are increasing B. have been increased C. is larger than before D. is more than before
8.There quarters of the land covered with green grass while the rest covered with pine trees.
A. is,is B. is, are C. are,is D. are, are
9.Three fifths of the cattle sold abroad in the city.
A. has B. has been C. have D. have been
10. The bread and butter to the two boys.
A. is offered B. are offered C. offers D. offer
11. His class unable to agree on a monitor so far.
A. are B. has been C. is D. have been
12. The worker and poet to the party the other day.
A. is invited B.was invited C. had invited D.invited
13. Nobody but San and Mike in the lab.
A. had been B.is C. were D. are
14. There a driver and a number of broken wine bottles beside the highway when the police arrived.
A. were B. was C. had been D. would be
15. It was Mike and Peter who the reading-room this time yesterday.
A. was cleaning B. were cleaning C. cleaned D. had cleaned
16. My trousers being washed .What’s worse , this pair of trousers bought yesterday
too short for me.
A. are, is B.is, is C. is, are D. are, are
17. Every boy and every girl to attend the meeting party.
A. wish B. wishes C. is like D. like
18. The population of
A. is B. are C. has D. have
19. Every means tried but without any result.
A. have been B. is to be C. are to be D. has been
20. Half of the fruit bad.
A.are B. has C. is D. have
21. Cattle ______ on the hillside.
A.grazes B. is grazing C. was grazing D. were grazing
22. Her politics ______ neither conservative nor liberal.
A. is B. are C. was D. has been
23. Measles ______ a kind of infectious illness.
A. is B. are C. were D. have been
24. The
A. lies B. lie C. lay D. lays
25. Mary is one of the girls who ______ always on time.
A. is B. am C. are D. was
26. Tom is the only one of the stall members who ______ to be promoted.
A. is going B. are going C. has been going D. have been going
27. What caused the accident ______ on the road.
A. were stone B. were stones C. was stone D. was stones
28. Wisky and soda ______ his favorite drink.
A. is B. are C. were D have been
29. ______ is to attend our evening.
A. both the singer and the dancer B. Either the singer or dancers
C. The singer or dancers D. The singer and dancer
30. The Smiths ______ their breakfast when the morning post came.
A. had B. has been having C. are having D. were having
31. No one except two students ______ the meeting.
A. has been late for B. have been late for C was late for D. were later for
32. All but him and me ______ to the exhibition.
A. am going B. is going C. are going D. was going
33. Interest, as well as prospects, ______ important when one looks for a job.
A. are B. were C. is D. was
34. The president, accompanied by his assistants, ______.
A. have arrived B. are arriving C. had arrived D. has arrived
35. A number of cars ______ in front of the park
A. is parked B. was parked C. are parked D. has parked
36. the number of articles published on smoking ______ amazing.
A. is B. are C. were D. have been
37. The majority of doctors ______ smoking is harmful to health.
A. are believed B. had believed C. has believed D. believe
38. The majority of the damage ______ easy to repair.
A. is B. are C. were D. be
39. Four-fifths of the crop ______.
A. are ruined B. was ruined C. were ruined D. have been ruined
40. Three-fourths of the buildings ______.
A. was destroyed B. is destroyed C. were destroyed D. has been destroyed
41. Early to bed and early to rise ______ a man healthy, happy and wise.
A. making B. to make C. make D. makes
42. Mathematics ______ the language of science.
A is B. has been C. are D. have been
43. The young ______ the vital forces in our society.
A. is B. has been C. are D. have been
44. Every man, woman and child ______ some history, enough at least, to survive in the world.
A. knows B. know Cc. is known D. are known
45. None of them ______ my friends.
A. is B. are C. was D. has been
46. Not only the whole nation, but the whole
A. need B. needs C. has a need D. have a need
47. Getting to other planets or to the moon _____ many problems.
A. involve B. involves Cc. involving D. to involve
48. In that country, the rich ______ richer, the poor, poorer.
A. become B. has become C. becomes D. is becoming
49. The project requires more labor than ______ because it is extremely difficult.
A. has been put in B. have been put in C. being put in D. to be put in
50. Not one in one hundred children exposed to the disease ______ likely to develop it.
A. should be B. must be C. is D. are
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